Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël / J. Christopher Herold ; with a new introduction by Rebecca West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herold, J. Christopher.

Contributor:

West, Rebecca, 1892-1983.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817.

Authors, French--19th century--Biography.

Authors, French.

Intellectuals--France--Biography.

Intellectuals.

France.

Women--France--Intellectual life.

Women.

Intellectual life.

France--Intellectual life--19th century.

Women--Intellectual life.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xxix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 615 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, Va. : Time Incorporated, [1964]

Contents:

The Neckers. The Obscure years of Monsieur Necker; The Romance of Suzanne Curchod; Madame Necker's drawing room; The Trinity and the triangle

Love and politics. Marriage and emancipation; Revolution and intoxication; Love and politics; The heartbreak and the terror; Benjamin; "This miserable gypsy life"

Two tyrants. Ideology; The Ideophobe defied; Weimar, Berlin and fate; The Isle of Calypso; Corinne and Adolphe; Farce, tragedy, and histrionics; The Sword beats the Spirit

The Vanity of human wishes. Caliban; Defeat in victory; Not the port but the grave

Epliogue.

Notes:

Time reading program special edition.

"Postscript 1964: The present edition, though essentially un changed, as been revised in certain respects, especially those bearing on Madame de Staël's relationship with Count Ribbing ..."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 584-596) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Herold, J. Christopher. Mistress to an age.

OCLC:

1285330